Algeria's Bouteflika re-elected

Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Algeria's president, has won his third five-year term in a presidential election marred by allegations of fraud and attacks at polling stations.Bouteflika, 72, who ran against five candidates without much political clout, won the election with more than 90 per cent of the vote.His nearest rival, Louisa Hannoune, a Trotskyist candidate, only won 4.22 per cent of the votes.Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni, Algeria's interior minister, said that more than 74 per cent of Algerians cast ballots, including 65 per cent in the capital, Algiers, despite boycotts by opposition parties."The elections took place despite some incidents and attempts to disrupt them. This is a victory for the Algerian nation as it builds democracy," he said.The large turnout suggests that most of Algeria's 34 million citizens did not follow calls from the opposition, led by two left-leaning secular parties, to boycott the election.However, in Kabylie province, east of Algiers, very few people turned out to vote,  the Reuters news agency said.